At Relativity Space, we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Our Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch capacity. But that’s just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation, pioneering progress that reaches beyond the known.
Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. Here, you're not just executing tasks; you're solving problems that haven’t been solved before, helping develop a rocket, a factory, and a business from the ground up. Whether you’re in propulsion, manufacturing, software, avionics, or a corporate function, you’ll collaborate across teams, shape decisions, and see your work come to life in record time. Relativity is a place where creativity and technical rigor go hand in hand, and your voice will help define the stories we’re writing together. Now is a unique moment in time where it’s early enough to leave your mark on the product, the process, and the culture, but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum. The most meaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us.
About the Team:
The Terrestrial Software team is building the foundation for an automated rocket factory and integrated launch platform. Their mission is to automate and streamline workflows across the entire lifecycle of Terran R, from raw material intake to launch operations and eventually manufacturing on Mars. Today, that means partnering directly with teams across design, materials, manufacturing, and test and launch to design, implement, and deploy end user enterprise-wide applications, industrial automation, data analytics infrastructure, and next-generation AI to solve real problems and accelerate progress. Long term, the team is laying the groundwork for a modular, scalable software platform that can power highly autonomous operations on Earth and beyond. This is a team for builders and thinkers who thrive on cross-functional impact and want to shape the digital backbone of our future in space.
About the Role:
As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be a technical leader responsible for architecting, developing, and maintaining the most critical components of our analytics data platform. You will work independently on complex data engineering challenges, mentor junior engineers, and drive technical decisions that shape our data infrastructure strategy. This role requires deep expertise in modern data stack technologies and the ability to collaborate with senior leadership across the organization to deliver enterprise-scale data solutions.
- Design and architect scalable, reliable data infrastructure solutions for enterprise-scale requirements
- Make key technical decisions regarding data platform technologies, patterns, and best practices
- Lead performance optimization initiatives across data pipelines and storage systems
- Evaluate and recommend new technologies and tools for the data stack
- Discover, assess, and integrate complex data sources via database connections, APIs, message queues, and streaming platforms
- Design, build, and maintain enterprise-grade data pipelines using Airbyte and orchestration tools
- Develop sophisticated data models and transformations in Redshift using advanced dbt techniques
Our Data Stack:
Airbyte, Argo, dbt, Redshift, PowerBI, Grafana.
About You:
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering, with demonstrated progression in technical complexity and responsibility
- Proven experience architecting and implementing large-scale data solutions in production environments
- Expert-level experience with cloud data warehouses, including performance tuning and optimization
- Advanced proficiency with dbt for complex data transformation, modeling, and testing
- Strong experience with workflow orchestration tools (Argo, Airflow, Prefect, or Dagster) including pipeline design and optimization
- Expert programming skills in Python and SQL, with ability to write efficient, maintainable code
Nice to haves but not required:
- Experience with streaming data technologies (Kafka, Kinesis, or similar)
- Proficiency with Kubernetes and infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Experience with multiple ELT/ETL tools and ability to evaluate trade-offs between different solutions
- Multi-cloud experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) with deep knowledge of at least one platform
- Strong background in data governance, security practices, and compliance frameworks
At Relativity Space, we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation practices. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors.
Compensation is only one part of our total rewards package. Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more! To see some of the benefits & perks we offer, please visit here.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Relativity Space Long Beach, California, USA Office
We have two sites in Long Beach, CA's Space Beach: "The Wormhole," a 1M sq. ft. factory, once Boeing C-17's home. Nearby, "The Portal" supports Aeon R engine production for our Terran R launch vehicle.
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